Subject: Re: Using file names with high bit characters

From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 27 Jan 1997 22:19:29 GMT

[email-masked] (Peter Karlsson):
> When I tried to save a mesages with a character that had the high bit set
> (an ö), Pine complained that the file name contained an illegal character.
> How do I turn out this highly annoying behaviour?

Use "oe" instead.  Works for me!  ;-)

Sven

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From: Peter Karlsson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 07:27:33 +0100

> Use "oe" instead.  Works for me!  ;-)

Yeah, I could, but that's a stupid kludge. I can't see any reason why Pine
wouldn't let me use ö in the file name... :-/

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